Jon McMillan:  

Master Chief Mass Communications Specialist (SW/AW/EXW) Jon E. McMillan enlisted in the Navy in 1988. Upon completion of basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill., he attended Journalist ¿A¿ school at the Defense Information School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. He served as a broadcast journalist from 1989 to 1991 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory and as a public affairs specialist and speechwriter for Commander, Naval Base San Francisco from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, he served as part Joint Task Force 160, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and then reported to Commander, Fleet Air Mediterranean based in Naples, Italy. While serving at COMFAIRMED, he deployed in support of Non-combatant Evacuation Operations in Tirana, Albania and Braazaville, Congo; with the Implementation and Stabilization Forces in Sarajevo, Bosnia; and to Monrovia, Liberia in support of Operation ASSURED RESPONSE. In 1997, he was selected for Chief Petty Officer and served in broadcast and public affairs assignments at Naval Base Rota, Spain. In 2002, he reported aboard USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6) and served as the Public Affairs Officer during two wartime deployments in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the Senior Enlisted Leader for Fleet Public Affairs Center, Pacific where he trained and deployed the first Public Affairs/Media support teams to Carrier and Expeditionary Strike Groups. In 2007, he deployed to Baghdad,...Expand for more